#universal

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#farce #humor #slapstick #universally #well

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. ↗

— William James

#business #cannot #convenience #does #exclusively

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#always #being #consider #globalization #interests

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#anti #ascent #christianity #civilization #conditions

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#evolution #feeling #few #few men #inborn

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#christian #ideal #more #much #nay

I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#argue #because #being #brilliant #cherished

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#cabin #holding #i #long #long time

All universal moral principles are idle fancies. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#idle #moral #moral principles #principles #universal